Windows 7 SP1 Beta is Here

Microsoft have just announced the release of the first public beta for the Windows 7 Service Pack 1.

Apparently the Service Pack only contains minor updates to the operating system which mostly have already been released through the Windows update service, which does show how secure Window 7 actually is, just think how many updates and and the size of them which Windows XP has received for a start..

As the updates have already been addressed through Windows Update, Service Pack 1 is essentially for business users allowing an easy method of installing an up-to-date copy of Windows 7 to multiple machines. The big thing with SP1 is more to do with Windows Server 2008 R2 which if you didn’t know runs on the same base code as Windows 7.

According to the Windows Server 2008 R2 page, the big feature in the update is virtualization improvements:

• Hyper-V virtualization servers to “pool available memory on a physical host and then dynamically dole that memory out to virtual machines running on the host, based on current workload needs”.
• RemoteFX allows remote virtual desktops in Windows 7 SP1 to take advantage of 3D graphics such as Windows Aero, video, Flash, Silverlight, and 3D applications. According to a Microsoft white paper, “Using new protocol enhancements between Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, end users can now access virtual machines on a wide variety of target devices and still get a rich graphics experience with server-side graphics processing.”

Look out for the final release of SP1 sometime in the near future..

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